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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.

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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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